Quality Assurance Engineer Lead - Appspace

Your Role as a Quality Assurance Engineer Lead: 

As a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer, your focus is to formulate test strategy, design test cases, perform test execution, and within delivery timelines. You should be able to represent QA concerns in meetings with cross-functional, project team members, and provide valuable end-user feedback to improve the customer experience. You may be expected to lead a small team of QA Engineers to work on development projects.

A Day in the Life of a Quality Assurance Engineer Lead: 

• To plan, analyze, design, and develop test cases based on various requirements documentation using practical testing concepts to ensure adequate test coverage
• Perform functional/non-functional manual test execution and execute automated test scripts to ensure quality code releases
• Log defects and track to closure
• Take ownership of QA activities on assigned projects, follow through acceptance from the test scope analysis to acceptance of the test exit report
• Maintain and update test cases and test plans in a timely manner
• Record all test results and analysis to provide a high-level summary for areas tested
• Prepare and set up the required test environment and test data based on project requirements
• If required, to lead a small team of QA Engineers to work on testing projects.
• Communicate work progress and all (work-related) pertinent information in an accurate and timely manner to the Software QA Lead.

What You’ll Need: 

• Minimum 5 years of working experience in an agile software development environment
• Good testing and analytical skills
• Passion for testing and improving product quality as well as introducing innovative testing methods
• Good understanding of Quality Assurance in an agile environment
• Experience in the following will be advantageous:
• Cloud-based software platforms i.e: Google Cloud Platform, RabbitMQ, MongoDb, Kubernetes, Microservices and etc 
• REST API testing tools i.e: Postman, Swagger, SoapUI or similar
• UI automation scripting i.e Selenium, Playwright and etc
• Performance / Load testing i.e: Jmeter
• CI/CD tools i.e: Bamboo, Jenkins and Azure DevOps
• Test management tools ie: Zephyr, ALM or similar
• Mobile app testing (Android and iOS)
• Strong organizational skills – Ability to handle a dynamic environment
• Ability to prioritize and multitask
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Initiative and ability to demonstrate a proactive approach to tasks
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines

The Perks of Working for Appspace:

For all our KL based team members, we offer a variety of benefits from competitive salaries, medical, dental and vision coverage, mental health resources, a 14 week maternity leave program and transport/parking allowance.

Additional perks include:

• 20 Days PTO
• Flexible work schedules
• Remote work opportunities
• Paid company holidays
• Appspace Quiet Fridays (No non-essential internal meetings scheduled)
• A casual dress work environment